[New York] 3 ho. P.M. April 12th, 1776.
Mr. [Thomas] Randall informed the Committee that he stands in need of cash to discharge debts contracted in purchasing and in part fitting out an armed Schooner
Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esqr. as Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of this Colony, advance to Mr. Thomas Randall, Esqr. the sum of nine hundred pounds on account, in part of moneys by him advanced for the purchase of an armed schooner and her arms and outfit, the Treasurer to take Mr. Randall's receipt for the same.
Ordered, That Mr. Richard Norwood, commissary of Colony stores, deliver to Thomas Randall, Esqr. two hundred and fifty pounds of gunpowder and three hundred weight of lead for the use of a small armed schooner fitted out by the marine committee by order of the Provincial Congress, the said commissary to take a receipt for the same.